Computational molecular nanoscience study of the properties of copper complexes for dye-sensitized solar cells

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 16005-16019

  Baldenebro López, Jesús ^a,b   Castorena González, José ^b   Flores Holguín, Norma ^a   Almaral Sánchez, Jorge ^b   Glossman Mitnik, Daniel ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN MATERIALES AVANZADOS   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SINALOA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Absorption spectra; Chemical reactivity; Copper complex; Dipole moment; Dye sensitized; Molecular structure; Polarizability

Indexed keywords

COPPER COMPLEX; CU(I) BIQUINOLINE DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; COPPER; QUINOLINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DIPOLE; ELECTRON; ENERGY TRANSFER; HIGHEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; IONIZATION; ISOTROPIC POLARIZABILITY; LOWEST OCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; POLARIZATION; TIME DEPENDENT DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; VIBRATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPPER; MODELS, CHEMICAL; QUINOLINES; SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84871693865     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms131216005     Document Type: Article

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